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Few people outside the healthcare industry have any idea how complex the claims approval process can be – or how significant the claims payment issue is overall for medical clinics, especially the smaller ones. At Timmaron Group, we’ve even heard numbers that suggest some 80% of claims submitted by clinics nationwide are rejected the first […]

About 20% of America’s population overall is considered to be in rural communities, according to Census data. In many states, the percentage is much higher. For example, in Minnesota, it’s 29%, in the Dakotas about 40%, Wisconsin about 34%, and Iowa about 37%. For perspective, fully 97% of the country’s land mass is considered rural. […]

Global electricity needs are accelerating faster than ever. Beyond urbanization and the electrification of transport, the exponential growth of AI and data centers is creating a massive new power sink. This growth demands a stable, high-density, low-carbon power source that can run 24/7. We believe nuclear power, currently providing a quarter of the world’s low-carbon […]

Per a previous post on August 15, Timmaron Group again participated in the annual Epic Systems user group meeting. It was held August 18-21 in Madison (Verona) WI. The sci-fi theme teased in advance was a tip-off that AI would dominate the announcements. And that it did. No less than 160 AI projects were spotlighted, […]

(Photo credit: Brown University.) More than 100 rural hospitals have closed over the past decade, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform. They also report that 40 additional hospitals have eliminated in-patient services since the beginning of 2023. But now 700 more — one-third of all rural hospitals in the country — […]

Eric Systems is the electronic health records (EHR) market leader. It has some 50% of that market, far ahead of the next biggest player, Oracle Health (formerly Cerner). When you read their story, you learn that more than 350 million patients worldwide have an electronic record in the Epic platform. That, friends, makes Epic arguably […]

As you have undoubtedly heard, cuts by the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are already being implemented. Timmaron Group has been actively involved in Community Care programs for many years — primarily rural and tribal communities — so we’re very much aware that these cuts will affect such programs significantly. The three most concerning […]

You may recall we posted previously on LinkedIn about attending the big “HPE Discover” conference in Las Vegas, June 23-27. It is of course put on by technology giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE). This event has been held annually for some 16 years now and, as a Platinum Partner, we’ve attended almost every single […]

How can our country’s electrical grid be expected to handle the much-talked-about growth of artificial intelligence (AI), which relies heavily on data centers to deliver? In this post, we also set out to explore two more questions: What advantages does nuclear have over other energy sources? And how has nuclear progressed?